Semicolon

2015 was a year with a lot of downs, and I’ll be glad to see its end. Really. There were of course positives, but overall zero sense of balance.

2014 was equally odd in that regard; my wife nearly died in the July and, restricting myself to social networking, I’d:

Messed about with Linux doing some, what I’d call, rudimentary shell script coding based on top of Ayadn - a command line client for the App.net social network,

Inexplicably tailed off from my initial enthusiasm with the App.net Wiki, and have struggled to retain that,

Told everyone I wasn’t going to be using Facebook again,

Or Twitter.

2015, a year in review:

This year I continued my idiosyncratic approach:

Increasing my use of footnotes* in social media posts,

Adopting the [Oxford Comma] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma) more widely, occasionally even abbreviating the following “and” to “&”! And, even though I know it’s not its only use case, preceding only “and” gives me room to grow,

This last one puzzles me. Until late this year I’d almost never used it, succumbing as I did to peer pressure during my final couple of years at school by intentionally not caring about ‘English’ lessons. So why now?

A desire for self-improvement perhaps?

2015 also brought:

A late-year increase in the frequency of my blog posts, partially in response to installing the Journey (daily) journal app on my Android phone,

My slow-but-sure takeover of the #ThemeMonday hashtag on App.net (page needs updating.) I make the call to choose a shortlist of themes, collate, remind, and then post a poll to get votes to pick each. It’s not hard work, not really.

So, this blog post ends as the year ends, on a low note:

2015 does not get Baz’s Seal of Approval; really, it’s had very, very few highlights.

The only standout was a weekend trip to London with my family, my first. (Family and trip to England’s capital.)